I tried growing Romas, Better Boy, and some sort of cherry from seed, but once I transferred the seedlings (five of each) to slightly larger peat pots, they simply stopped growing. Nonetheless, I'd "planted" one of the culled seedlings in an old planter whose soil hadn't been changed since last year. The thing grew like gangbusters, and it's only since the fruits set that I even knew what kind of tomato it was!
I transplanted it late (late-May) along with some seedlings I bought from a local nursery (Roma and Rutgers), and have quite a few tomatoes growing by this point. I had to pull one of the Rutgers due to some kind of wilt (overwatered, I believe), and some of the smaller fruits on both types have BER (uneven watering after pulling the overwatered Rutgers
), but my from-seed Roma is the first to ripen.Luckily, the wife makes a mean sauce, so these first fellas are getting the garlic, onion, and basil treatment!
Kinda sucks because I put a bunch in pots that I thought were dwarfs but it turn out those got planted in soil and the big plants got planted in pots. again